Her brow was white and low, her cheek's pure dye Like twilight rosy still with the set sun; Short upper lip — sweet lips! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors, when all's... Spirit of the English Magazines - Seite 1061820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Kingsley - 1857 - 350 Seiten
...all your galleries together " — a syllogism of sharp edge, which he would back up by Byron's — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." But here was one of Nature's own pictures, drawn and coloured by more than mortal hand, and framed... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 Seiten
...dye Like twilight rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Fit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors,...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). And such was she, the lady of the cave : Her dress was very different from the Spanish, Simpler, and... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 Seiten
...the corsetiere could ever reduce to delicate dimensions. Like Byron, he was ready to exclaim — " I've seen much finer -women ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." But just let there come by a dainty little creature of five feet two or three, with pointed heels tapping... | |
| Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1862 - 580 Seiten
...material of sculpture. So that we do not question the sarcastic truth of Byron's couplet in Don Juan — " I've seen much finer women ripe and real Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." The question is, whether, with Nature's beautiful forms before him, the artist cannot idealise those... | |
| James McGrigor Allan - 1863 - 412 Seiten
...more than one connoisseur, fully demonstrated the truth of Byron's lines : — " I've seen more lovely women ripe and real Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.' ' So unexpected was the lovely apparition, that it elicited a low murmur or buzz of admiration from... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 Seiten
...rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary, (A race of mere impostors, when all 's done — I 've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal).... | |
| 1865 - 380 Seiten
...twilight, rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary. Byron. Her Dignity of Mien. In peasant life he might, have known As fair a face, as sweet a tone :... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1865 - 398 Seiten
...rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary. Byron. Her Dignity of Mien. In peasant life he might have known As fair a face, as sweet a tone : But... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 Seiten
...Like twilight rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips ! that make us sigh Kit for the model of a statuary (A race of mere impostors, when all's dona— I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Tban all the nonsense of their stone ideal). And... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 Seiten
...sun ; Short upper lip — eweet lipa ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for bbc was on« e below, thy hopes a all 'e done — I've seen much Uuer women, ripe and real, Than all the ntmwnsc of their btuiie ideal).... | |
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